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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM E. BRINE, OF ST. MARGARETS BAY, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA.

LINIMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,804, dated January 29, 1889.

Application filed November 30, 1888. Serial No. 292,286. (No specimens.) Patented in Canada June 28, 1887, No. 27,076.

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Be it known that 1, WILLIAM ED\"ARD BRINE, a citizen of Canada, residing at St. Margarets Bay, in the county of Halifax, Province of Nova Scotia, Canada, have invented a new and useful composition of matter to be used as a preventive against and a relief for the bites of mosquitoes, black dies, and other insects, (for which I have obtained a patent in the Dominion ot' (.anada, No. 27,076, dated June28,1887,) of which the following is a specification.

My composition consists of the Following ingredients, combined in the proportions as hereinafter stated, viz: eastor-oil, one-third part; kerosene-oil, one-third part, and equal proportions of glyeerine and essenm ot'peppermint one-third part. These ingredients I are to be thoroughly mixed together by agitation or otherwise. I have usually mixed together the caster-oil and kerosene-oil, then the glyeerine and oil of peppermint, and added the latter mi xtn re t0 the former; but they may be otherwise combined or mixed together without changing the character or efficacy of the composition. By applying the above named composition to the face, hands, and parts of the body that may be exposed to the bite of insects it will be found to eitectually prevent the insects from biting sueh parts, and to speedily relieve bites already received.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to seen re by Letters Patent, is-

The herein-deseril)ed composition of matter to be used as a preventive against and for the relief. of the bites of mosquitoes, black flies, and other insects, consisting of eastoroil, kerosene-oil, glyeerine, and essence of peppermint, substantially in the proportions specified.

W. BRINE.

'Witnesses:

CHAS. E. Hiu uuroN, HARRY F. .PHEL AN. 

